Recent trends of forest cover change and ecosystem services in eastern upland region of Bangladesh

Ahammad, Ronju; Stacey, Natasha; Eddy, Ian M. S.; Tomscha, Stephanie A.; Sunderland, Terry

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.07.406

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“…They found that the deforestation rate was highest (0.75%) during 2006-2014 in their 85-year time period. Unlike Ahammad et al (2019) [31], they found that hilly areas of southeastern parts are facing more deforestation than other parts, particularly due to agriculture. They also found forest gain in the south-central coastal zone, which can be attributed to the afforestation programs.…”

Section: Sdg 151-forestsmentioning

confidence: 65%

“…However, this scenario is different in the hilly part of southeastern Bangladesh. For instance, in the hilly areas, forest cover increased with an annual rate of 0.45% in the period between 1989-2014 [31]. This supervised MLC analysis indicated that forest cover gain was prominent until 2003 but started to experience loss since then.…”

Section: Sdg 151-forestsmentioning

confidence: 82%

“…Forest health assessment, habitat degradation, species composition related studies used various approaches, in addition to supervised MLC, in their analysis including OLS Figure 5. Forest cover loss/gain estimation by different studies [24,27,[30][31][32][33][34].…”

Section: Sdg 151-forestsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Remote Sensing-Based Research for Monitoring Progress towards SDG 15 in Bangladesh: A Review

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been in effect since 2015 to continue the progress of the Millennium Development Goals. Some of the SDGs are expected to be achieved by 2020, while others by 2030. Among the 17 SDGs, SDG 15 is particularly dedicated to environmental resources (e.g., forest, wetland, land). These resources are gravely threatened by human-induced climate change and intense anthropogenic activities. In Bangladesh, one of the most climate-vulnerable countries, climate change and human interventions are taking a heavy toll on environmental resources. Ensuring the sustainability of these resources requires regular monitoring and evaluation to identify challenges, concerns, and progress of environmental management. Remote sensing has been used as an effective tool to monitor and evaluate these resources. As such, many studies on Bangladesh used various remote-sensing approaches to conduct research on the issues related to SDG 15, particularly on forest, wetland, erosion, and landslides. However, we lack a comprehensive view of the progress, challenges, concerns, and future outlook of the goal and its targets. In this study, we sought to systematically review the remote-sensing studies related to SDG 15 (targets 15.1–15.3) to present developments, analyze trends and limitations, and provide future directions to ensure sustainability. We developed several search keywords and finally selected 53 articles for review. We discussed the topical and methodological trends of current remote-sensing works. In addition, limitations were identified and future research directions were provided.

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Section: Sdg 151-forestsmentioning

confidence: 65%

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“…Furthermore, the significance of the socio-spatial approach in understanding the dynamics of people to land relationships is well explained in Alemie et al (2015). Likewise, Ahammad et al (2019) also assessed forest cover change and its impact on livelihood in eastern upland regions of Bangladesh and found out that livelihood outcomes are highly linked with the changes and conditions of forest cover. These imply that the socio-spatial approach is vital to draw an encompassing knowledge of people to land relationship together.…”

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Does Land Tenure Insecurity Affect Forest Cover Change? Evidence from Gerejeda State Forest in Ethiopia

Alemie

Amsalu

2020

Journal of Land and Rural Studies

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Literature shows that most evidences on the link between land tenure and land cover change come either from theoretical models or isolated tenure regimes. Specific to Ethiopia, the existing literature is limited to the investigation of these pertinent issues in isolation. This research aimed to investigate the effect of different tenure regimes on forest cover changes in Ethiopia. Three tenure regimes are experienced in Ethiopia from 1973 to 2015. Both social and spatio-temporal data analyses are carried out. The spatial results demonstrated that the forest cover has declined across time. This study reveals that tenure security is necessary to prevent mismanagement of forest cover, and its effect becomes more visible when it is integrated with measures that halt the direct and underlying drivers of forest cover change. Thus, tenure security should be considered as one important attribute in realizing sustainable forest management in particular and rural development in general.

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“…Forests are able to provide a wide range of products and services [12,14,16,18], contributing this way to human wellbeing [1]. In particular, tropical rainforests are characterized by the presence of a high number of plant species [7] that support increased biodiversity [7], [22] and provide many products to local communities and to several industrial sectors [9], [12], [17], [21], [26].…”

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Known and Newly Documented uses of Rainforest Plant Species in the Pastaza Region, Ecuador

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Yepez³

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Knowing the uses of forest plant species is important for the conservation and sustainable use of forest ecosystem provisioning services. Based on an extensive literature survey, this paper reviews the uses of 540 rainforest species from the Pastaza region (Ecuador) and builds further the existing knowledge by field research that identified 39 new uses of local rainforest plants. Following a systematic categorization of the known and newly identified uses, it was found that the local plants are predominantly used as materials, medicines and foods (>80% of the sample), while the tree species dominate in various categories of local uses. The information given in this paper may help in building a local strategy for the sustainable use of plants and the conservation of endangered species, as well as in valuing the forest ecosystem provisioning services.

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Recent trends of forest cover change and ecosystem services in eastern upland region of Bangladesh

Cited by 40 publications

References 47 publications

Remote Sensing-Based Research for Monitoring Progress towards SDG 15 in Bangladesh: A Review

Remote Sensing-Based Research for Monitoring Progress towards SDG 15 in Bangladesh: A Review

Does Land Tenure Insecurity Affect Forest Cover Change? Evidence from Gerejeda State Forest in Ethiopia

Known and Newly Documented uses of Rainforest Plant Species in the Pastaza Region, Ecuador

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